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#GEOMETRY ARENA TRAINER PROFESSIONAL#
Fortunately, there are wonderful drawn-to-scale dry-erase dressage arena boards available for purchase, which you can find below and at Dressage from the needs of our professional downhill racers (Loïc/Finn/Miller), we designed and built the 2FO Clip 2.0 for one purpose-to win races. But you will end up going through a good deal of paper and printer ink because these experts also recommend drawing your test repeatedly until it becomes second nature to you. You can draw these templates by hand on paper, or design them on your computer and print them.
There are no gray areas in a test - every stride is counted in one movement or another…You can use small drawings of the arena and do each movement in one color per level or in different colors for walk trot and canter." You must have a mental diagram of the arena in your mind with the transitions clearly marked and the span of the circles, serpentines, and half circles accurately represented.ĭressage Judge Betsy Berrey and renowned dressage trainer and champion competitor Christopher Hickey point ou t that drawing your tests "will help you to understand where each movement begins and ends. That means you must have them memorized and visualized. There are many movements in Second Level tests and above, and little time to think about them. When you do this, you will see that riding a 20 meter "circle" using RSVP as anchor points gives you an oval, riding a 15 meter circle using the centerline as a boundary gives you a 10 meter circle, and riding on 20 meter circle lines between A and K, F and A, C and H, and M and C will not put you deep enough into the corner to set up your next move properly. The answer to these problems, according to these experts, is to draw your tests on a geometrically correctly scaled dressage-arena template so that you see and feel how the figures fit into a standard dressage arena. Riding deep into the dressage-arena corners allows you set these moves up properly. It will also cause problems for movements that require you to ride diagonally across the arena because your horse won't have time to make the proper turn onto the diagonal. This will cause problems when you set up transitions at the next letter (such as C) because your horse won't be parallel to the arena boundary, that is, his body won't be straight. As Janet Foy points out, this is because they are used to riding circle lines and don't realize that circle lines don't reach into the arena corners.
And as riders progress through the levels, the circles get smaller so the errors become more frequent.Īnother common problem these experts report is not riding deep enough into the corners of the dressage-arena. " The judge must penalize you for these inaccuracies. As she puts it "And, if the first horse puts the wrong footprints in the sand, the rest will follow.
So when you ride your "circle" inside this imaginary rectangle, you end up riding an elongated oval. But these letters define an oblong rectangle, not a square. She points out that it isn't possible to ride accurate circles if you don't know this.įor example, she states that at Training Level championships, most riders execute ovals, not circles, because they use the RSVP letters in the center of the dressage-arena as circle points. She often asks riders how many meters are between the letters, and is dismayed to find they have no idea. Why does this matter? Janet Foy, an FEI "I" and USEF "S" dressage judge explained that the most common errors riders make at the lower levels is riding incorrect figures. You need to know exactly where your figures hit each point." "Draw your test movements", she states, "so that you know what each should look like, including the exact geometry of the arena. Hilary Moore, dressage instructor, FEI competitor, and USDF associate instructor stressed the importance of DRAWING your dressage tests, especially at the lower levels.
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